Coming up on Chinese New Year!

And the weather seems rather non-conducive to midnight fireworks.  Well, maybe there'll be a break in the rain at the appropriate time.  We shall see.

Winter freeze became early-Spring warm days, and now cool early-Spring rain.  Supposed to continue through Monday, more or less.  Going on a quarter-inch so far.

Woke up late last night; the weather radio was warbling its song of fear.  Grab glasses; stumble out of bed.  Radio has switched to voice.  Garble warble farble something something... oh, a description of a person.  My phone said there was a Blue Alert, but when I tried to click the link for more info it just closed the popup announcement.  Oh, well: no tornado, so back to sleep.

Comes the morning: turns out there was a cop killed, and another injured, during a traffic stop... not that far from the crossroads with the stores (other side of the crossroads from us).  Perp fled in a vehicle, and as of midafternoon is apparently still at large.  So, somewhere in the general area, probably.  Which I guess is another reason (aside from the rain) for staying home today.  And a scan of the morning headlines?  Looks like there's been an outbreak of crazy.  I mean, more than what's become usual.

On the work front, interesting times (mainly of a non-bloggable nature, unless I really file the serial numbers off).

Oh, well.  Got some waveforms to ponder.

Update:  That fugitive?  Still at large, as of 1800.  At some point, the cops went to the home of his girlfriend, on... oh, my goodness.  That's not a very long road; the closest point is under 0.2 mile from here, and the furthest is about 1.8 miles away.

Comments

[Rob]

When the weather radio kept waking me up with things that had nothing to do with where I was I turned it off...

[Eric Wilner]

The weather radio here mostly squawks about local-ish weather.
This alert was about something in the next county... but it's maybe a 20-minute drive from here, observing the posted speed limits, and the fugitive did have a vehicle at the start of the chase.
IIRC, my phone kept giving me missing-child alerts from the far corners of the state until I found a way to filter those out.
And now it's the next morning, and (checks news) he's still at large.